Oceanview beach replenishment with the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers on
a one hundred twenty million dollar grant to mitigate flooding in the Ohio Creek
Watershed just two examples of how Norfolk has established itself as an
international leader in building urban resilience that forward thinking has not
gone unnoticed as NATO chose Norfolk to host its first ever interdependency in
resilience conference the uniqueness of the competency in the capacity to have this
right here in Norfolk is on match anywhere in the world for two days
representatives from thirty four nations and thirty private sector agencies
gathered at the main hotel and conference center in downtown to develop
a blueprint to improve the understanding of how military business and civil sectors
are dependent on each other and how they must work together to reduce risk and
increase readiness in an ever changing world if we experience any type of failure
the manmade or natural disaster in our city it disrupts our way of life it also
will have
a. Impact on our military and NATO there's not many cities that can call
me to the international organization the U.S.
Navy these big meet our boat we have here on the undersea T.
Who has
a huge knowledge of the resilience and the university who is working the D.C.U.
As well so what we can build here is
a lobotomy focus unions because we have so many competency so to give For more go
to N F K resilient city org.